Mac Pro is coming tomorrow
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2013/12/18All-New-Mac-Pro-Available-Starting-Tomorrow.html
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2013/12/18All-New-Mac-Pro-Available-Starting-Tomorrow.html
For users that have the iMac/Macbook Pro system with tons of external boxes, this little box isn't bad.
The configure-to-order pricing has NOT been revealed yet...and that's the end of it.
I've just had a formal quote for the top spec 12 core - just shy of £7250
If the nMP had a slot for a 2nd internal SSD I'd probably do that. But in reality I will probably partition the internal SSD into 2 or 3 pieces. 1 for OS and Apps, another for media etc. Or are you saying to spend another $1000 on a J4 with SSD's so I can have a slower connection. I want mari using the fastest I/O it can.
Mac Pro's have a high resale value because they are upgradable and customizable.
Don't suppose you were given an indication of the price in Sterling of any of the upgrades individually?
I'm hoping to go for a 8c/D700/1TB/16GB once the online store opens tomorrow. I'm expecting it to be about £5,000 but it would be ideal if it was less.
I just want a computer that's faster than a Mac Mini and which has a video card that I can upgrade myself when faster ones come out. I don't need a $3K powerhouse.
Also I don't want an iMac since I don't want to re-buy a monitor whenever I upgrade my computer.
Apparently I'm alone in this, since Apple offers no such computer.
What kind of work do you on your Macs?
I just want a computer that's faster than a Mac Mini and which has a video card that I can upgrade myself when faster ones come out. I don't need a $3K powerhouse.
Also I don't want an iMac since I don't want to re-buy a monitor whenever I upgrade my computer.
Apparently I'm alone in this, since Apple offers no such computer.
Mostly app development and gaming, e.g., World of Warcraft, Starcraft 2, etc.
Makes sense. I love Apple products but their limited offerings can sometimes be a pain.
Agreed, and now is a much better time then when I first switched to the Mac . . . to switch back to the Windows or Linux PC. I've never been more satisfied with Windows than with Windows 8.1.
The hardware from the top 5 makers is solid across the board, and MS seems to have gotten the whole post-pc world down much better than anyone else. I see folks in post houses downloading apps from their 8.1 tablets and they show up in their laptops.
It's a very tempting time to move to the dark side.
I'm a .net developer and iOS developer there just isn't a market for writing win 8 mobile software, at the same time the lack of apps is what is keeping me away from a win tablet. A bit of a catch 22, I know. But the iOS market is now so congested, that it's no longer a money maker either.
I do love outlook. Even on the RT. I'm thinking of going to the dark side as well but annoyed by one aspect of win 8. It's great for tablets, but running all apps full screen on dual 27's is annoyingly stupid. And vertically aligning them does not help (split). Great on tablet, horrible on PC and laptops. Maybe it's just me, but the desktop side was not thought through and needs a bit of work. And writing two separate apps, one for desktop mode and another for metro also is a stopper since the frameworks are vastly different (still .net but wpf is different).
I am thinking Microsoft will focus quite a bit on software for apple (office & RDP are examples). Their osx version of RDP is 50 times better than on the PC. It even does retina scaling properly, but on win 8 it's awful!! It scales down, but not up. So DPI is screwed up. DPI is another thing they need to fix, by the way. Half the elements are Too small, the other half is too big (on retina, and yes, I've tried the new 8.1 scaling). The other issue is their release cycle in osx software is 10 times faster than on windows. For instance RDP went through 4 iterations. RDP for windows is still 3 years old with only a minor update. And RDP is huge now that cloud computing, cloud workplace are becoming popular.
I ordered a Mac Pro. LOVE apple, but still looking back and seeing if anything good is on the windows side. I can always cancel before feb.
What is enticing you to switch? Would you do phone too? I think Nokia needs to get their act together and release a different looking phone. All their phones look identical.
I just want a computer that's faster than a Mac Mini and which has a video card that I can upgrade myself when faster ones come out. I don't need a $3K powerhouse.
Also I don't want an iMac since I don't want to re-buy a monitor whenever I upgrade my computer.
Apparently I'm alone in this, since Apple offers no such computer.
Put in the work and build an x86 rig yourself to supplement your MacBook or deal with it. I hate to be blunt but if there were money to be made with your idea, Apple would be all over it.